Beer: Rack ‘Em Up! The Beeracks, East Haven Multiple visits Armada Brewing opened up a nearby second location on River Street in New Haven in 2022 and left The Beeracks shortly thereafter. In late 2024, The Beeracks closed. You’re just going to have to go with me here. The path from the original Overshores … [Read more...]
Aspetuck Brew Lab (Closed)
Black Rockin' Aspetuck Brew Lab, Bridgeport July 2019 Aspetuck closed in November 2024. Journey with me, won’t you, to bucolic Black Rock, Connecticut, home of Aspetuck Brew Lab. Or, as we fancy boarding school Connecticutians say, “Ahhspehtuhck Brew Lahhhhhb in Blahhhhck Rohhck, Cohhhnecticuhhht.” No brewery … [Read more...]
Perfection Screw (Gone)
I’m a Child Perfection Screw, Wolcott Perfection Screw was bought by another company in April 2019 and is no longer. There’s no need for this on the esteemed pages of CTMQ. Yet, here we are. Perfection Screw and Rivet (whose signage only said “Perfection Screw”) was founded in 1952 and produced thousands of … [Read more...]
Fairfield Craft Ales (Closed)
Hellooooo Stratford! Fairfield Craft Ales, Stratford May 2019 The brewery closed in September 2022. You want to know how you know Connecticut was starving for independent craft breweries for a long time? You know this because a tiny little 35-seat brewery could open less than a mile from our state’s largest … [Read more...]
Nordic Moon Meadery (Closed)
Pretty Lo Ki Nordic Moon Meadery, Ellington April 2019 What you're reading right now is a placeholder of sorts. As I write this in August 2019, Nordic Moon's tasting room is not yet open. I don't know when it will be open. It might be open when you're reading this... or maybe it never opened. If and when it does … [Read more...]
Connecticut Valley Distillery (Closed)
Smuggler's Done Connecticut Valley Distillery (Closed), Ellington Closed 2018 You have found yourself on (yet another) page on CTMQ that exists for no other reason than to satisfy my list-completion OCD. I not only never visited the Connecticut Valley Distillery, I never drank any of its signature Smuggler’s Rum. … [Read more...]
The Brewery at Maple View Farm (Closed)
Reassessing Everything The Brewery at Maple View Farm May 2019 The brewery closed at the end of November 2024. I’ve been thinking about the old adage, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” While I’ve been clear in my 13 years of writing everything on this website that I sometimes … [Read more...]
Moses Cle(a)veland of Canterbury
Cleaved Moses Cleaveland's Birth and Grave Sites Canterbury Cleveland. The “Mistake by the Lake.” Always the butt of jokes. So much so that Connecticut makes fun of it. That’s when you know you have an identity problem. It goes beyond the Cuyahoga River being on fire and the perennial ineptitude of the Browns and … [Read more...]
World’s Largest Visible Model of the Solar System (Gone)
Sunsetting World's Largest Visible Model of the Solar System (RIP) Talcott Mountain Science Center, Avon Generally, I’m not too upset about the various things around the state that close. I get to most before their demise and for those that I don’t, well, I'll try to cobble together a page about something if it … [Read more...]
Stranger Tides Brewing (Closed)
Strange Brew Stranger Tides Brewing, Colchester April 2019 I'm calling this brewery permanently closed. Closed pre-pandemic for health issues, license expired summer of 2021. I just happened to come across this picture in early 2023 which prompted me to see if there was any change in brewery status. I think it's a … [Read more...]
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